So you've decided to start a weblog and have a really clever idea for titling it based on a snippet of code you find particularly novel. Rad!
… and other freakishly large animal pr0n. Awesome. (via sogrady)
From 2002: “On this latter specification, Sutor is emphatic: web services are defined by whether they are described in WSDL.”
“… sued the restaurant where she worked saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest in April. Berry, 26, believed that she had won a new car, but she was blindfolded, led to the parking lot and presented a toy Yoda …”
“… people of the Internet, the YTMNDers, trolls of the world, the GameFAQs members, the eBaumers; us old time Internet users, and the newest of noobs, the YouTubers and MySpacers, must band together for a fight that transcends our differences …” :)
Includes a nice chart of the Differentiation of Fat Joe’s Liquid Based Promiscuity :)
“Groj Sale”
“maybe try coding something in c”
“It all started with Windows Vista”
“Whitespace?”
“After careful considering, much soul-searching, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, it has been decided to reject this PEP.”
From IMil in comments: “Shocking statement #(n+1): 80% of the 80% believe that they belong to [the] 20%.” A recursively shocking statement! i.e., (0..Infinity).inject (0.8) { |x,n| x * 0.8 }
Beautifully executed.
“Modern fascist states don’t even bother to kill those people, and pretending they're going to show up in some stormtrooper outfit and start a gun battle with you is insane.”
“No one party has a monopoly on bullshit” … “it’s not just about talking bullshit, it’s also about living it…”
“… and mounts your shotgun flush at your bedside enabling access to your shotgun while in the laying position in your bed!”
I know! Seriously.
“Facebook isn’t the internet, dipshit.”
“Paul Graham can divide by zero — and the answer is ‘Paul Graham’” … “Paul Graham invented Al Gore” … “Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.”
“It was as if its architects were given a perfectly good hammer and gleefully replied, ‘neat! With this hammer, we can build a tool that can pound in nails.’” — that is THE SINGLE FUNNIEST SENTENCE ever assembled in the history of english language!
Stefan Tilkov with a poster-size illustration of HTTP client errors (4xx series only).
“Clearly, after inspecting r guys, the expected utility of inspecting one more an continuing optimally is 1/(r+1) the sum of b = 1 to r + 1 of U(b, r+1). Call this expression Z.”
MoveOn’s response to a congressional vote condemning their recent NYT / Patraeus ad. This is apparently going into the Times sometime over the weekend…
The emacs(1) manpage from Bell Labs’s Plan 9.
“I'm not really much into evangelizing Ruby and Rails much nowadays. You know, since we won, I have to admit that it became boring and besides the point.” :)
“Aaaaaaaar! Home a day early, ye are, husband. This varmint a poor stranger be who lost his clothes.” :)
“The e-mail was leaked to the public by a group that calls itself MediaDefender-Defenders.” … “Apparently, MediaDefender employee Jay Mairs forwarded all of his company e-mails to a Gmail account, which was eventually infiltrated.”